Clean-Up Beacon!

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Clean-Up Results: Sunday May 2nd

Thanks to the 5 volunteers who attended our first clean-up last Sunday. We worked our way from Main St., down Beekman and Thompkins, to bank St. Roughly 5 contractor bags of trash were collected, along with 6 bags of bottles and cans. Please send in your suggestions for future locations !

The Hudson River Watershed Alliance, the Dutchess Watersheds Coalition and Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County are partnering on a cleanup of the Beacon waterfront. Meet at 9 a.m. on June 2 at Beacon's Riverfront Park. For more information, contact Barbara Kendall at barbara@hudsonwatershed.org.

Thanks for the River Sweep update, Bill. That's too bad, it was fun to get out in the kayaks for a good cause--and plenty of people participated on the shore as well.

As for re-starting the clean ups, why don't we try a Sat. morning in late March? It feels as though May and June get so darn busy for most people with weddings, graduations, parties, etc. I vote for a late March cleanup--provided we're not buried under snow--and maybe we could build off that momentum for April. How about March 19 or 26?

After much initial interest, participation quickly waned. We had a very inactive 2010. Personally, I discovered geocaching and practice CITO and have adopted a couple of spots, but as far as the group goes it has not done anything of late. It is frustrating when a well publicized clean up day draws half a dozen people.

As to the River Sweep, I discussed this with someone from Scenic Hudson, who had organized the River Sweeps. I was told that they would not longer be serving as an organizational clearing house for this and left it up to the communities and groups to organize and publicize their own. I expressed that this was unfortunate in that they had served as a clearing house for all of the cleanups, and served as a resource for concerned people that were not in "the loop". There was one year when the one in Beacon conflicted with something else, but using their site was able to participate in several in other locations. I used their "find a sweep" site to offer students extra credit on the final exam in an Environmental Issues course that I taught. Predictably the students that took me up on it chose one during school hours...What; high school seniors finding an excuse to blow off school on a nice spring day?

Hi everybody. The melting of the snow revealed a bumper crop of trash this year. If anyone's interested in a little early cleanup, I'm there...A question, is the Great River Sweep no longer held? My husband and I participated for several years with our kayaks, but I haven't seen any mention of it since 2007 or so...

Sundays are a bit more problematic for me during the summer since I am away many weekends. As of yesterday i am retired (hooray for me). In the past some have suggested that weekends are not good and that a weekday evening might get a better crowd. In the future I will be available to lead weekday evening clean up sessions. That assumes that my sciatica allows me to stay on my feet for more than a few minutes at a time.

Is it possible to suggest a location for a cleanup day? The streets and sidewalks around the county building (DMV) on Main Street have recently been strewn with trash, and the area could really use the attention of this group.

OK, that's all good to hear - I was especially commenting on this as I have friends coming up on Sunday to do the guided hike, so unfortunately I won't be available to help with this cleanup as I had originally thought that I would.